- Conventions
- Dukes of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Speech and Pattern
- 1. The Rhetoric of Good Order
- Speech and the Order of Prose
- Rhetoric in Practice
- Rhetoric in Theory
- Rhetoric in Philosophy
- 2. Wen and the Meaning of Verbal Art
- Wen and the Burden of Artifacts
- Text as Artifact: Citing the Zhouyi
- Artifacts of the Zhou: Citing the Shi and Shangshu
- King Wen and Wenci
- The Concert for Ji Zha
- 3. Intelligibility in the Extra-human World
- Heaven and Earth
- The Five Phases and Yin-yang
- Theories of the Human: Music, War, and the Responsive Universe
- 4. Order in the Human World
- Spirits and Ancestors
- Cultural Others
- The Royal Center
- The Hegemon
- Interstate Relations
- Internal Administration
- The Confucian Virtues
- 1. The Rhetoric of Good Order
- Part II: Narrative and Justice
- 5. The Anecdotal History
- Readings of Historiographical Narrative
- Form and Judgment
- Experiments in Vision
- 6. Narrative and Recompense
- The Anecdote Series
- Bao and the Economy of Narrative
- 7. Aesthetics and Meaning
- Pleasures and Consequences
- Poetry Recitation
- War and the Utopian Gesture
- 8. Writing and the Ends of History
- The Invisible Authors
- Time and Narration
- The Decline of the Zhou Order
- The Rise of the South
- The Dilemma of Writing
- The Death of Confucius and the Birth of Historiography
- 5. The Anecdotal History
- Appendix: Orality and the Origins of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu
- Reference Matter
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chinese Character List
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS


Harvard East Asian Monographs 205
A Patterned Past
Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
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Publication Date: 04/15/2002
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